skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Rich asshole makes demeaning comments about situations they don't know" More at 11.

Seriously though, how out-of-touch do you have to be to think that entire organizations full of smart people are so incompetent as to have 100% bloat?

Could you lay off 50% of Google today and still have a functional, competitive product tomorrow? Yes.

Would you still have a functional, competitive product in 2 years? No.

Engineers are building and maintaining the product, SREs are keeping the jobs, servers and infrastructure humming, sales is bringing in new clients and keep existing clients happy, marketing is... OK maybe Google does need a marketing overhaul...

Deep cuts will also signal to employees and competitors that blood is in the water. Any remaining loyalty would evaporate and MSFT, AAPL, AMZN, & META would all be eager to scoop up that talent to build competing products to Google Search & Ads and bolster their cloud & AI offerings.

Disclosure: Google employee
Well most VCs loose money ...
Wonderful that we have evolved large linear algebra models running on expensive computers to the point that they can no longer do basic arithmetic correctly.
This is good, but what would be great is binary packages for those 25 architectures.
nice... ive had this on my todo list to build for quite a long time, but you beat me to it.
> People complain about this relentlessly, but never change

What do you mean by this? How would “people change” to get out of resort fees or confusing pricing systems?
> fortunately I could use Ed Satterthwaite’s excellent offline debugging system for ALGOL W

What is he referring to here? What's an "offline" debugger?
It's bizarre. Gazan social media happily shows the malls and beach clubs, car dealerships, supermarkets etc, that existed before Hamas started the war. There's literally nothing flag-worthy about my comment asides from it debunking a narrative about Gazan life.
> "I don't think it's crazy to believe that half the white-collar staff at Google probably does no real work," he said. "The company has spent billions and billions of dollars per year on projects that go nowhere for over a decade, and all that money could have been returned to shareholders who have retirement accounts."

So, he doesn't really understand Google's dysfunction and is just guessing at the causes?
The developer a casualty, but not in the way you're trying to portray. They were a casualty of Sony's descision to cut the game off from over half of the countries in the world. In addition, the Helldiver's team and CEO told everyone to let Sony know what we thought with our words and our pockets, so we did -- and it worked. I'd suggest looking into these things more before spouting nonsense.

To us, you come off as irrational trying to defend Sony while using the developers as your (unwilling) ammo.
Its legit: https://www.tasteatlas.com/scrapple
Personally, I liked it when email threads followed the Usenet "laws".

https://jkorpela.fi/usenet/laws.html

Most of the best discussions I've had online followed those rules.

(OTOH, those rules are written tongue-in-cheek and not likely to be understood well by most newcomers.)
"Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager". Many knowledge workers manage projects on a daily or weekly basis, yet most, including myself, don't have formal training in it and will profusely reject the title "Project Manager". The book gives a no-bullshit guide to manage things—deliverables, deadlines, schedules, and scope—and how to lead people—team members, customers, etc.

"The Emperor of All Maladies". A haunting, personal, and intimate biography of cancer. Having been on the peripherals of several cancer patients, I find the book an incredible overview of the disease, and how to deal with its physical, mental, and societal consequences.
That's ... basically every old person and everyone with some savings.

Even if you don't own Google stock (or even any stock) directly, you likely have exposure to it because it's in the S&P 500, which is used as foundational financial product in many contexts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267997

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40241828
Think WW2, where

- fascist countries aligned

- people preferred isolationism to getting into a hot war

- the western countries tried appeasement

- it ended up much worse than it had to be

One of the first steps would be stopping Russia in Ukraine
Your again making the assumption that the data owner know what queries people want to execute, and is also happy to pay for all the compute involved in running those queries. There is no “simple API” that’s gonna let you remotely run machine learning training on someone else’s hardware, or let you perform any other kind of large dataset analysis.

Converting data into a ZKP format is a one time cost, that can be shared by many different data processors.
I use Obamacare in the rural southern way, referencing ACA and healthcare.gov, lol.

I'm also in Georgia which may have different regulations regarding the deductibles. I remember looking at the plans around 2 years ago and realizing that there was no way I could afford the premium, let alone the yearly deductible.

I just took another quick look at a non-Healthcare.gov site. Insurance for me would be $313/month with a $9,100 deductible. But it does not cover doctor visits, generic drugs, or specialist visits until after I pay the full $9,100.

Why would I want to pay $313/month for essentially no coverage until I spend 20% of my income towards a deductible before I see any benefits?
Sure, everything is an optimization problem, the hard part is defining your cost function, especially if the borgizaf is trying to solve an ill-formed business problem.
Can't you just commit the configure file?
With articles like this I always think it'd be really interesting to hear from others on the team. I find it really hard to imagine there's not going to be pressure (either self-inflicted or from above) to 'game' it, or how do you decide what's gaming and what's pragmatic anyway - perhaps better said I find it hard to imagine people don't feel like it's being gamed, that they're having to add value where they think they should be maintaining, even if OP or whoever deciding that thinks it's the right call.

(And to be clear I can't say and am not saying which is right, from over here with zero information about any such decisions.)

It could be fun to have a platform for honest blogs about work stuff where it's grouped by people verified to work (or have worked) at the same place. (Or, I realise as I write that, a descent into in-fighting and unprofessionalism..)
That's in the specific context of staking and promising returns, not crypto in general.
I agree. Locale.getLanguage() returns the language code.

The specific Locale() constructor used in the code is documented as taking a parameter: "An ISO 639 alpha-2 or alpha-3 language code, or a language subtag up to 8 characters in length. See the Locale class description about valid language values."

I'd guess the app code lucked out on the string returned from getDisplayLanguage() getting mapped to the appropriate language in all the other cases that the app supports.

Now if getLanguage() had been renamed to getLanguageCode() then maybe a dev might have had the light bulb turn on, but random string returned from an API passed to another API passes the compile test and the app doesn't blow up, so we're good to go...

Searching for the offending incorrect code on the web doesn't return any matching "sample" code, so I'm not sure where the app got the bug from.
Future of Intelligence: "The Incalculable Element"
Great question! We have retry logic in place to handle Postgres restarts. If the failure occurs in-place, you should be fine as the slot will persist. If Postgres fails over to the standby, PeerDB will wait until the slot is created. We did consider automatically creating the slot if it doesn't exist on retries, but ensuring data reliability (creating the slot right after failover without data being ingested) is tricky. So, as of now, we leave it to the user.
-Os usually is the fastest, better than -Ofast
German public broadcaster has enough budget to send humans to the Moon. Still better than nothing, they could simply traditionally increase the fee without anything new in return. Any news from them them is a slap in the face and is assuring me that moving out of Germany was a good decision.
This is basically what people do with problems like Private Information Retrieval and Private Set Intersection. They use some lightly applied FHE as a subroutine, but otherwise hand-develop a cryptographic protocol for the specific program at hand.

As it turns out, these applications are much more widely used than FHE.
The ideological bullshit here is hilarious.

We have a VC here whining that a business with one of the most exceptional margins in modern capitalism is… not returning enough to shareholders?

And those pesky workers are to blame?

The buck here stops with management. If the people with power in your organisation are powerless to ship features, innovation and value… aren’t they the problem?

Get leadership that works. Hire a board that knows how to innovate.

95% of VC knob-ends do no real work. They spend other people’s money on other people’s businesses and help themselves to profits other people have generated.

Google probably is too big, but don’t blame Jane from Legal or Deepak from Accounts
I'd like to believe that, but US branches of car Non-US companies don't necessary adopt the same policy as the parent company. If Honda USA believes there's money to be made in abusing its customers, I'm confident they'll do it.

We saw this clear as day when Nissan USA denied all responsibility for installing unsafe steering wheel air bag igniters after NTSA demanded their recall. Nissan USA continued to stall for months, first saying that the igniters were NOT faulty, then claiming the responsibility lay only with the subcontractor who made the igniter -- and refusing to announce a recall.

These acts of unresponsibility were likely decided by lawyers only in the US branch of Nissan, since NTSA regulates Nissan only in the US. (This is largely why I bought a Honda rather than a Nissan afterward, since Honda's response to the airbag igniter fiasco was exemplary in contrast.)
Funny, I was just gonna comment and say that I learned this One Weird Trick… and then realized I’d learned it from you.

(Hi, Bob! I was actually just using your recursive shadowcasting algorithm as a reference yesterday.)

I feel like I just got an Erdos number or something.
Take a look in the mirror, guy
at the end of the day it is really about which poison you would pick; one team dealing with one complicated toolchain or five teams with their own bespoke OS-specific toolchains that can barely coordinate. They're both not good choices; and in an era that until recently was an era of dev scarcity, a lot of companies picked the former choice.

people also really hate feature gaps between platforms. so option one makes your customers less angry at you.
We do this at Heii On-Call: https://heiioncall.com/

Outbound Probes to hit your exposed HTTP services, or Inbound Liveness for your own cron jobs etc to check in.
True, but it's weird how many times he mentions retirement in particular.
Think my company burned a year on a solution using Cassandra. I think the problem was 1/3 Cassandra and 2/3rds the people that would pick Cassandra amd Java over PostgreSQL and C# or go.
This is something RoamResearch is squarely a good fit for.

It's very useful for personal capture (with digressions etc) but also handles the "multi-player" case if needed.
Thank you also for having us know of UnHerd.

RSS: https://unherd.com/feed/
Yeah I was thinking the same thing - but more generalised to just “sensory input”

The fact that our brains and sensory input have been tightly coupled since forever basically means we don’t have a framework for perceiving these in different spatial coordinates simultaneously.

But then I was thinking what if our sensory input was split up? My eyes in one location, seeing stuff, my ears in another location hearing stuff, my mouth in another location tasting stuff, then my notion of self switches back to wherever the brain is, but where was that transition? It’s not clear to me :/

I was more interested in the dual minds at the end of the blog post though, musing on the Ship of Theseus type problem of at what point do the two minds become distinct after desynchronisation?

That got me to thinking about how much biology alters the mind too - e.g. when he mentioned that his body was drinking alcohol would his mind get drunk (I think no, presumably because only nerve impulses are being transmitted) but then does he feel the other effects of alcohol? Rapid heartbeat, hot flushes? Can you have an adrenaline induced panic attack using such an interface?

If the sensory duplication is severed can they re-merge at any point in future even if they diverge a lot?
How does the interface resolve conflicting brain outputs? Just issue the dual signals? What of conflicting signals go to the heartbeat control nerve?

Great article! Made me think a lot!
really angling for those rage-clicks
Konsole's default scroll-back is 1000 lines. I wonder what is the simplest, most realistic error a beginner would encounter that exceeds that?
... and versions etc too
There are a lot of dismissive folks who think this is some kind of one-off event because you can't prove it's not- oh wait, the other attempts we can prove aren't enough evidence either!

I understand being wary of America trying to solve this the only way we know how (PRIVATIZE IT!), but dismissing it as a non-issue makes that more likely because you're basically saying you plan on ignoring it rather than putting your own controls in place.

Yes, FOSS projects need to be welcoming to new devs. No, they don't need to pretend malicious actors aren't an issue in order to do that.

You can vet new people, and be welcoming, at the same time.
Investors routinely make big mistakes, but they also routinely get wiped out and replaced by someone with a more long-term vision.

Think how much money all the day-traders put together make (probably less than zero) versus someone like Warren Buffett (a lot more than zero!), or the many successful owner-operated or founder-owned companies out there.
There’s a huge middle ground between on-prem and GCP/AWS. You can rent space and connectivity from in very competent datacenter without any of these big fixed costs.
I think there's a case to be made that FHE will empower "laundering" responsibility for using cloud resources for evil purposes. But I don't think that will have much to do with high-power computation.
We have the new Honda CR-V. I switched off data sharing right away. Yes, there's this orange notification but to me it's not intrusive. I think it's good that turning this off is pretty easy.

All in all, it looks like the main issue is that there's this dark pattern afterwards. I can actually live with that. I just ignore that notification. Honda could do better though.
Yeah, that's quite common? 'computer literate' etc.? It's even quite dated as a term because it's so uncontroversial and accepted.
What if you're playing a game and someone pulls the chair from under you?

Do you remain in the game, unresponsive?

Do you prove that you were indeed on the chair all the time?

Or do you get forcefully pulled out from the game to the floor?

What if you play a game at a LAN party while chatting with others in the same room?

What if you put the loudspeaker on in the LAN room to order a pizza? What will you answer to the question of "where are you?"?

I think the answer is closer to "you're in all of those places, to differing extents, depending on who asks". Yes, it feels useless, but attempting to figure out one ultimate answer feels even more useless to me.
I would agree, except for the fact that I read Graeber's Bullshit Jobs and was quite convinced by his research showing that anything between 15-50% of employees across many surveys believe that their role is useless.
One time I saw a high-paid google engineer stocking a fridge in the hallway with drinks and snacks. A nearby office with accountants in it also saw this, and when I mentioned it they took it upon themselves to calculate exactly how much money it was costing the company for him to do that. It was $250/hr.
Sounds like your issue is with Texas, then, not with America.

Why perpetuate crude and inaccurate stereotypes that smear and disparage America in general? America is spending a huge amount of money every year precisely on providing healthcare for the poor.

Besides which, it looks like Medicaid does indeed operate in Texas, which is discoverable in less than 10 seconds of Internet searching: https://www.hhs.texas.gov/services/health/medicaid-chip/abou...

And, seperately, Obamacare's marketplace works nationally, including in Texas: "More Texans than ever before enrolled in ACA health plans in 2024"[1]

[1] https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/24/texas-aca-health-ins...
Pure ragebait. Ignore this clown VC and move on.
I know this is an against the grain (for HN at least) take, but I don't disagree.

If you're not working on, or supporting, the company's product, you MAY have a BS job.

Good example: Twitter, which functioned well after layoffs of 80% or so (the owner's persona has damaged the revenue and reputation extensively, but the product itself has been fine). They're maybe the boldest, but hardly the only company in the past couple of years to do mass layoffs and not collapse at the core.

With Google of course, many projects are at some point considered core, to be dismissed later, so the line between "product" and "BS" is blurry and changing.
There are people on twitter/X who have been analysing the CDC data for a year and have the same conclusions; there's one interesting writeup at https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/04/16/the-state-of-things.... The author is a bit crackpoty-sounding, but the analysis passes first-order smell tests.
> YOU CAN'T MEASURE MANAGER PRODUCTIVITY EITHER.

This is so much the case that on a Freakonomics episode I caught on NPR the other day about economists attempting to prove whether the Peter Principle is true (TL;DR probably yes, and likely more so than you’d even guess—but also this is all very hard so maybe don’t take it too seriously) it seemed that this is something so difficult that they barely even try to do it and when they do the measurements are so narrowly-focused and come with so many caveats that one hesitates to call them useful.

Like best case you manage to find that you can measure one of several plausible performance indicators and if you’ve picked the exact right kind of job where worker productivity can kinda-meaningfully be measured (it often cannot) then maybe you can conclude some things with a large enough dataset, but then connecting that to any particular behavior on the part of the managers is another big hurdle to overcome before you can try to, say, develop effective scientifically-sound training, and at that point you’ve likely wandered into “just give up, this is too messy” territory.

[edit] and this:

> That gets to another major undercurrent of IT. Managers want to place IT employees in the "worker bee" category. They don't want IT workers to be managers, and entitled to the great benefits according the management class. The long running IT salary advantage in the US, and the constant ebb and flow between management and IT "working" to push that down is a major social undercurrent here.

Nail. Head.

Managers of developers act piss-pants afraid of us properly joining the (socially speaking) upper-middle (cf Fussell) or professional class, which the MBA set are busy trying to eliminate everywhere else (lawyers, doctors, college professors) so they’re the last ones standing.

This shit is why micromanagement PM frameworks and packing us into loud visually-messy sardine can open offices is so popular. Dropping that stuff would be table-stakes for our moving up the social status ladder. Adopting it pushes us way down the pecking order.
>Racial minorities have not always been free to choose where they lived - redlining was only phased out in the late 60s and 70s.

Which means county lines make even more sense: racial minorities may have been redlined out of specific neighborhoods in a city, but they still reside in the same county.
Mentioned in the article: because doing it without FHE is risky or illegal due to data privacy laws or IP protection or similar.
How do we seperate that from for example the pareto principal where it may be the case that 80% of the work is done by 20% of the people or a night security guard who works maybe 5% of the time and the rest is spent watching TV yet still an invaluable part of the company in terms of insurance box checking and PCI compliance etc.

Seems like a common fallacy to just jump in like Elon Musk and start trimming out the perceived false jobs and end up with a company that is weaker than it was originally. I've no doubt the VC is has a case but it's a lot hairer than a simple sentence alludes to. I feel like I end up back where I started -- in that I simply don't know or lack the info to make that call -- many jobs could simply be redundant but redundancy isn't always a bad thing -- espeically in massive tech companies with staff leaving for greener pastures on a whim.
The kind that is meant to automate manual processes that have evolved over decades by adding edge cases, to accommodate single business partners, that are triggered by nondeterministic heuristics that are undocumented. In other words, any back-office software.
Ask HN: Got logged out, login says "Sorry."
I am on a residential US IP that seems to have a good reputation when I checked. As of a few days ago I got logged out and login page wouldn't load, saying "Sorry.".

Today frontpage started to say the same. I figured I'll test from a different IP and even login worked.

Seems like the some mistake might have led to some potentially incorrect ranges getting blocked.

@dang, for reference, it is the IP that ends with 109.205
GenAI is to data visibility what absolute zero is to a hot summer day
At least the stock market has bounced back, can't say the same about that house.
> If you're aware of Toyota's ７つのムダ sure.

Which indeed I've never heard of. But from what I can find [0], the meaning here still matches what I said - these are things that can be safely removed to save time/money without harming the end product. Not "necessary but hidden" things.

[0] https://www-nikken--totalsourcing-jp.translate.goog/business...
No, you just misunderstood what OP meant by "this". They meant using portmanteau neologisms, and you thought they meant that specific portmanteau.

No need to be nasty about it.
I think functional encryption is even less well developed than FHE. Most problems can't be expressed in functional encryption, and the security model is really iffy.